David's adultery with Bathsheba was only an opportunity to demonstrate the power of repentance, and some Talmudic authors stated that it was not adultery at all, quoting a Jewish practice of divorce on the eve of battle.

While David was in this state his fourth son Adonijah, heir apparent to the throne after the death of his elder brothers Amnon and Absalom, acted to have himself declared king, But Bathsheba, a wife of David and Solomon's mother, along with the prophet Nathan convinced David to proclaim Solomon king.

Also, the two mountains which form the entrance to Kukuana Land ( where the mines are located in the novel ) are referred to as ' Sheba's Breasts ' which could well be an allusion to the Queen of Sheba, with whom King Solomon had a relationship ; or alternatively Solomon's mother, who was named Bathsheba.

Four people were hanged for the crime: two British soldiers, a young Continental soldier, and Spooner's wife, Bathsheba, who was charged with instigating the murder.

Bathsheba was the mother of three young children, and in her own words felt " an utter aversion " for her husband, who was known to be an abusive drunk.

As a student, his 1654 painting titled Bathsheba was inspired by Rembrandt's painting done in the same year on the same subject and given the same title, though their treatments are rather different ; both Drost ’ s and Rembrandt ’ s paintings are in the Louvre in Paris.

* King David fasted when the son of his adulterous union with Bathsheba was struck sick by God, in punishment for the adultery and for David's murder of Bathsheba's husband, Uriah the Hittite.

The household was centred on the Ferrar family: Nicholas's mother, his brother John Ferrar ( with his wife Bathsheba and their children ), and his sister Susanna ( and her husband John Collett and their children ).

Boldwood, not realising the valentine was a jest, becomes obsessed with Bathsheba, and soon proposes marriage.

* Katniss Everdeen, the main character of the novel The Hunger Games, was so named as a tribute to Bathsheba, according to author Suzanne Collins.

According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba (, Bath Shebha, " daughter of the oath ") (, " ابنة القسم ") was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.

15: 12 ), a city of Judah, and thus Bathsheba was from David's own tribe and the granddaughter of one of David's closest advisors ( 2 Sam. 15: 12 ).

Bathsheba was the daughter of Eliam (, who is called Ammiel in ).

Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and afterward of David, by whom she gave birth to Solomon, who succeeded David as king.

The story is told that David, while walking on the roof of his palace, saw Bathsheba, who was then the wife of Uriah, having a bath.

After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to have sex with Bathsheba, the king gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be placed in the front lines of the battle, where it was the most dangerous, and left to the hands of the enemy.

After Uriah was dead, David made the now widowed Bathsheba his wife.

Bathsheba was the granddaughter of Ahithophel, David's famous counselor, whom David had good relations with.

The Midrash portrays the influence of Satan bringing about the sinful relation of David and Bathsheba as follows: Bathsheba was bathing, perhaps behind a screen of wickerwork.

Bathsheba may have been providentially destined from the Creation to become in due time the legitimate wife of David ; but this relation was prematurely precipitated by David's impetuous act.

The father of Bathsheba was Eliam ( spelled " Ammiel " in I Chronicles 3: 5 ).

As the daughter of the state's most prominent and despised Loyalist, Bathsheba bore the brunt of the political, cultural, and gender prejudices of her day.

The meaning of the Hebrew form of the name " Bathsheba " is " daughter of the oath ", " bath " meaning daughter.

In turn, Felix was the son of Joshua Hughes and Martha Askins, while Jean was the daughter of Thomas Summerlin and Bathsheba Robard

* Mary Lincoln Crume ( 1775-1851 ), daughter of Abraham Lincoln ( Captain ) and Bathsheba Herring and aunt of American President Abraham Lincoln

* When having to face the lack of certain letters, someone's daughter renamed herself Bathsheba, one of David's wives.

In 1735 he married Mrs. Bathsheba Newcomb, widow of William Newcomb and the daughter of the Hon.

Ruggles left his daughter, Bathsheba Ruggles, behind enemy lines in Massachusetts.

The daughter of a prominent Colonial American lawyer, justice and military officer, Bathsheba Ruggles had an arranged marriage to a wealthy farmer, Joshua Spooner, prior to her father's banishment from Massachusetts in 1774, due to his British Loyalist stance.

Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner was the daughter of Brigadier General Timothy Ruggles, a lawyer who had served as chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1762 to 1764, and founder and most eminent citizen of the town of Hardwick, Massachusetts.

Under public censure for his refusal to sign the Stamp Act protest as Massachusetts representative to the 1765 Stamp Act Congress, Ruggles might have arranged the marriage on January 15, 1766, for his daughter to Joshua Spooner, but no documentation has yet turned up to explain why Bathsheba Ruggles married a man she very soon came to hate.

" The Spooners had their first child, Elizabeth, on April 8, 1767 Three more followed between 1770 and 1775 ; Joshua ( February 21, 1770-September 18, 1801 ), who died in London, England and daughter Bathsheba Spooner ( January 17, 1775 – 1858 ).

Scipio, Bathsheba, and his daughter Antoinette were sent to Camp Determination, where he was separated from his family and sent to Barracks 27 in the men's section of the camp.

Since 2 Samuel 11: 3 notes that Eliam is the father of Bathsheba, some scholars suggest that the Ahitophel of 2 Samuel 15 may in fact be Bathsheba's grandfather.

The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cites David as one directed by God to practice polygamy, but who sinned in committing adultery with Bathsheba and having Uriah killed.

At this point, the dashing Sergeant Francis " Frank " Troy returns to his native Weatherbury and by chance encounters Bathsheba one night.

After relating the parable of the rich man who took away the one little ewe lamb of his poor neighbor ( II Samuel 12: 1-6 ), and exciting the king's anger against the unrighteous act, the prophet applied the case directly to David's action with regard to Bathsheba.

As this was also the name of a son of Ahithophel, one of David's heroes ( II Samuel 23: 34 ), it has been conjectured that Bathsheba was a granddaughter of Ahithophel and that the latter's desertion of David at the time of Absalom's rebellion was in revenge for David's conduct toward Bathsheba.

Ruth was a Moabite and Bathsheba is perhaps a Hittite and was certainly married to one.

Bathsheba Spooner distributed paper money from her husband's lock box and articles of his clothing to the three men, who then took one of the Spooner horses to Worcester, 14 miles distant

Scipio / Xerxes married Bathsheba and had two children ( one named Cassius ).